Gaza fighting rages despite cease-fire proposal - Yahoo! News: "Despite the heavy fighting, strides were made on the diplomatic front with the U.S. throwing its weight behind a deal being brokered by France and Egypt.
While the Security Council failed to reach agreement on a cease-fire resolution, Egypt's U.N. Ambassador Maged Abdelaziz said representatives of Israel, Hamas and the Palestinian Authority have agreed to meet separately with Egyptian officials in Cairo Thursday.
Israeli airstrikes killed 29 Palestinians on Wednesday after leaflets were dropped warning residents to leave the area 'because Hamas uses your houses to hide and smuggle military weapons.'"
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Monday, January 5, 2009
ANALYSIS / Israel's operation in Gaza is entering its problematic phase - Haaretz - Israel News
ANALYSIS / Israel's operation in Gaza is entering its problematic phase - Haaretz - Israel News: "The Bush White House is very pleased with the blow struck against Hamas."
Livni: Israel will no longer show restraint when attacked - Haaretz - Israel News
Livni: Israel will no longer show restraint when attacked - Haaretz - Israel News: "Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said Monday that the Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip was intended to 'change the equation' in the region, whereby Hamas fires at Israel and Israel responds with restraint.
Speaking to reporters alongside her counterparts from the Czech Republic, France and Sweden, Livni defended Israel's incursion into the Hamas-ruled coastal territory as a form of 'legitimate self-defense.'"
Speaking to reporters alongside her counterparts from the Czech Republic, France and Sweden, Livni defended Israel's incursion into the Hamas-ruled coastal territory as a form of 'legitimate self-defense.'"
Prepare for PR Fallout | Professional PR
Prepare for PR Fallout | Professional PR: "Chicago Sun-Times, another rare treat.
The first and only article (these folks at Duxler are FAST) I read was about the written prayer that Barack Obama left in a crack of the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City. Rule number one: those notes are private. Rule number two: since they are private they’re supposed to remain that way. Apparently, the note was taken (by whom isn’t so clear though it might have been a student) and then published yesterday in the Israeli paper Maariv. I won’t include the prayer here; you can look that up yourself.
But I thought it might be interesting to raise this issue of what to print and what not to print and all the ramifications involved. But of course I have a bigger lesson to offer, too. While I wasn’t in on the editorial meeting during which the publication of the prayer was discussed I have to guess that the editors at least raised the possible ways the public might respond to the paper sharing Obama’s private exchange with his god. I know for this blogger, an invasion of privacy like this makes me very uncomfortable and I wonder a little if the paper will suffer at all. I have to believe they prepared themselves for the fallout and there has been fallout.
The lesson, of course, is that when you take a risk like this you absolutely must be prepared for the impact."
The first and only article (these folks at Duxler are FAST) I read was about the written prayer that Barack Obama left in a crack of the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City. Rule number one: those notes are private. Rule number two: since they are private they’re supposed to remain that way. Apparently, the note was taken (by whom isn’t so clear though it might have been a student) and then published yesterday in the Israeli paper Maariv. I won’t include the prayer here; you can look that up yourself.
But I thought it might be interesting to raise this issue of what to print and what not to print and all the ramifications involved. But of course I have a bigger lesson to offer, too. While I wasn’t in on the editorial meeting during which the publication of the prayer was discussed I have to guess that the editors at least raised the possible ways the public might respond to the paper sharing Obama’s private exchange with his god. I know for this blogger, an invasion of privacy like this makes me very uncomfortable and I wonder a little if the paper will suffer at all. I have to believe they prepared themselves for the fallout and there has been fallout.
The lesson, of course, is that when you take a risk like this you absolutely must be prepared for the impact."
Barrage of Rockets Hit Ashkelon, Beersheva, Ashdod. | Middle East > Israel from AllBusiness.com
Barrage of Rockets Hit Ashkelon, Beersheva, Ashdod. | Middle East > Israel from AllBusiness.com: "Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip fired a barrage of more than 50 rockets at southern Israel on Thursday, one of which scored a direct hit on an eight-floor residential building in the northern Negev city of Ashdod, nearly 40 kilometers (24 miles) from the Hamas-ruled coastal territory.
The strike on the Ashdod apartment house caused a fire to erupt in the building and seriously damaged the top floor. Rescue workers evacuated all residents, fearing that the building would collapse. The incident ended without physical injuries and the damaged structure still intact. A number of people were treated for shock, however, many of them children and elderly people.
Four Grad rockets exploded a few minutes after the Ashdod strike in the city of Ashkelon and about two more struck the city a few hours later."
The strike on the Ashdod apartment house caused a fire to erupt in the building and seriously damaged the top floor. Rescue workers evacuated all residents, fearing that the building would collapse. The incident ended without physical injuries and the damaged structure still intact. A number of people were treated for shock, however, many of them children and elderly people.
Four Grad rockets exploded a few minutes after the Ashdod strike in the city of Ashkelon and about two more struck the city a few hours later."
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
The Arena - Politico's daily debate with policymakers and opinion shapers | Politico.com
The Arena - Politico's daily debate with policymakers and opinion shapers Politico.com: "The American model works-- the model according to FDR and JFK.
What's collapsing is the Bush-Cheney caricature of the roaring 20s capitalism that exploded in the Great Depression-- a marketplace without effective regulation, oversight or transparency..
It's been a pervasive perversion of the capitalism that made free markets responsible markets; this is the Administration that let the oil companies write its energy policy in secret.
McCain's problem is that the maverick favored a wild west market, even sponsoring a blanket moratorium on regulation. Two bubbles are bursting simultaneously-- the financial bubble and the Palin bubble."
http://thewriterscafe.org/
What's collapsing is the Bush-Cheney caricature of the roaring 20s capitalism that exploded in the Great Depression-- a marketplace without effective regulation, oversight or transparency..
It's been a pervasive perversion of the capitalism that made free markets responsible markets; this is the Administration that let the oil companies write its energy policy in secret.
McCain's problem is that the maverick favored a wild west market, even sponsoring a blanket moratorium on regulation. Two bubbles are bursting simultaneously-- the financial bubble and the Palin bubble."
http://thewriterscafe.org/
Thursday, September 11, 2008
The Writers' Cafe
The Writers' Cafe: "any rate, I must have had a great morning on the flipping fields, because my stack was really bigger than it had ever been. The rule that Mrs. Rubin enforced was that our baseball cards were to be placed on a shelf above our coats. Kevin, must have gotten to the coats before I did, and he was clearly reaching for my stack of baseball cards! I saw him grabbing for my stack from across the classroom. I remember it as if it was in slow motion because my objective was so crystal clear. I had to get to Kevin and use what ever methods were at my disposal to prevent him from getting my baseball cards firmly into his hands."
http://thewriterscafe.org/
http://thewriterscafe.org/
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